Rurik (ship, 1851)
The Rurik (Russian: Рюрик ) was a steam-powered wheel frigate of the Imperial Russian Navy .
She was from the Senate of the then to the Russian Tsarist empire belonging Grand Duchy of Finland for the 1830 founded Finnish naval squadron ( Suomen Meriekipaasi been ordered). It was named after the legendary Varangian Prince Rurik .
The Rurik was built at the Gamla Warfsbolaget i Åbo shipyard in Turku and was launched there on October 30, 1851. With 1,500 tons and 12 guns, she was the largest ship built in Finland up to that time. Her 300 hp steam engine gave her a top speed of 11 knots.
The Rurik initially served as the escort ship for the Tsar's yacht Alexandria and later in the Baltic fleet .
successor
The Russian Navy later had two more ships named Rurik :
- Rurik (1892) - Armored cruiser, sunk in 1904 in a naval battle near Ulsan
- Rurik (1906) - armored cruiser, flagship of the Baltic fleet in the First World War
literature
- N. Issanin: Morskoi enziklopeditscheski sprawotschnik: Tom 2 . Sudostrojenije, Leningrad 1986, p. 195. (Russian)